Тотальная лингвистика: Власть грамматики и грамматика власти

In 1950 Stalin initiated and participated in the “linguistic discussion” in Pravda. The results were the rout of Marr's “new theory of language”, prevalent in the USSR since the 1930s, and the introduction of “Stalinist language teaching”. The article analyses theoretical and ideological grounds of Marrism, its personal and political preconditions, as well as strategies for representation of power in Late Stalinism, political consequences, and the broad ideological implications of Stalin's intervention in linguistics, with special attention to his ‘On Marxism in Linguistics’.